Program entity
Bishop State Community College
Mobile, Alabama · Public institution
- Address 351 North Broad Street, Mobile, AL 36603-5898
- Phone (251) 405-7000
- Website www.bishop.edu/
- Tuition (in-state) $5,340
- Tuition (out-of-state) $9,210
- Welding (CIP 48.0508) completions 22 (latest reported year)
- AWS ATF co-located No (No AWS ATF facility found in this city+state in the AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing PDF (6.25.2025, 200 domestic facilities) -- not a gap, a computed negative match.)
Program details
What this program covers
Bishop State Community College's welding technology program offers an AAS, a Pipe Welding Technology Certificate, a Steel/Aluminum Welding Technology Short-Term Certificate, and a general Welding Short-Term Certificate. Instruction covers MIG, TIG, and arc welding along with pipe welding, metal fabrication, blueprint reading, and welding safety. Classes are offered in morning and afternoon in-person sessions at the Carver campus during spring, summer, and fall; the college states institutional scholarships are available for academics, performing arts, leadership/service, and athletics, plus separate Foundation scholarships.
- Processes taught MIG, TIG, arc welding (stick), pipe welding
- Credential types AAS; Certificate (Pipe Welding); Short-Term Certificate (Steel/Aluminum); Short-Term Certificate (Welding)
- Schedule morning and afternoon, in-person; spring, summer, fall
- Facilities Carver campus
- Financial aid institutional scholarships (academics, performing arts, leadership/service, athletics); Foundation scholarships
Sources & provenance
- Identity IPEDS Directory (HD component) via Urban Institute Education Data API (2023) , retrieved 2026-08-04
- Completions IPEDS Completions (C2023_A, NCES bulk file) (2023 (2022-23 academic year)) , retrieved 2026-08-04
- Tuition College Scorecard institution-level bulk CSV (Most Recent Cohorts) (most-recent-cohort (exact AY not labeled in bulk file; file release timestamp 2026-06-10)) , retrieved 2026-08-04
- Atf AWS ATF Domestic Site Listing PDF (aws-p-001-delivery.sitecorecontenthub.cloud/api/public/content/AWS-ATF-Domestic-Site-Listing), dated 6.25.2025, GET-fetched and parsed with pdftotext; 200 facility records extracted (city+state); co-location = program's city+state matches an ATF facility's city+state (2025 (6.25.2025 listing)) , retrieved 2026-08-04
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